Physics-based human motion models

TNT members involved in this project:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bodo Rosenhahn
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Many medical procedures rely on detailed analysis of the human motion apparatus. In this context correspondences between motion patterns and hidden physical parameters like joint torques are highly interesting. To gain accurate information about the correlation between patient specific body parameters, the internal forces acting on joints and a healthy movement, a framework is required, that combines all of these characteristics.

The project aims at a direct access to physical properties of an investigated motion without the necessity of tedious simulation using inverse or forward dynamics. By use of machine learning techniques the computational expense can be reduced and the need for expensive equipment like force plates is extinct.

Interior joint torques and forces are estimated fom motions by means of machine learning approaches. The necessary training data can be generated using predictive dynamics optimization based on a skeletal model of the human body.

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  • Petrissa Zell, Bodo Rosenhahn, Bastian Wandt
    Weakly-supervised Learning of Human Dynamics
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), August 2020
  • Petrissa Zell, Bodo Rosenhahn
    Learning inverse dynamics for human locomotion analysis
    Neural Computing and Applications, Springer Nature, December 2019
  • Petrissa Zell, Bastian Wandt, Bodo Rosenhahn
    Physics-based Models for Human Gait Analysis
    Handbook of Human Motion, Springer International Publishing, 2018, edited by Bertram Müller, Sebastian I. Wolf